I work on questions of policing, criminality, gender, and agrarian administration in modern Egypt. My dissertation “Policing the Village: Criminality, Bureaucracy, and Land in Rural Egypt (1833-1914) explores the everyday life of policing in the Egyptian countryside, as shaped through property relations, land ownership, and agrarian transformations. The dissertation blurs the established boundaries between policing and penal law, on the one hand, and spheres of authority, like property, space, and land, on the other. While focused on the Egyptian countryside, agricultural laborers, railroads, itinerant communities, criminal gangs, and financial networks transport my work beyond provincial and national borders. 

HIST 46B: The Modern Middle East, Nineteenth Century to the Present (F20, F21, F22) 

HIST 46A: Premodern Middle East, From Muhammad to the Nineteenth Century (S21, S22)

HIST 2C: World Histoy (W21)

HIST 17B: The American People (W22, W23)

WRIT W6R: Rome The Game (S23, F23, S25)